Here Moosey, Moosey, Moosey

So last night I headed outside to take the clothes off the clothesline. I'm walking across the deck when I noticed something moving over by our pool...

HOLY CRAP, it's a cow (female Moose) and her baby!
RUN in the house screaming, OMG Craig, there's a Moose and her baby in the yard, get the camera, get the kids, quick, quick, quick, don't let the dogs out and I'm running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, I spotted the camera, grabbes it and ran back outside.

Of course by this time the Moose realized they were in a crazy person's yard after hearing me screaming with excitement and slamming doors, haha

But I was also to grab this one as they were running out of my yard.


I knew they were headed for the swamp in the front of out house, so I followed them... camera was on all the WRONG settings, I still had it set to fireworks from Canada Day weekend so they're blurry, I'm sure it had nothing to do with my hands shaking...LOL



Here's Mama coming back onto our road...


Baby was a little timid to cross the road since there was a few of us there at this point, but he ran along and caught up



I see these guys (well maybe not these exact Moose) quite often so you would think I'd be used to it, but I get so darn excited, they're such a magnificent animal!!!

great pictures! They are magnificant as you said!

and also dangerous. My friend's father was riding his motorcycle one day, and a moose came out from the woods, charging after him and knocked him off the bike. The dad is now paralyzed waist down. It was mating season and I guess he got too close.

Brilliant! I'd love to be able to see wildlife like that around here. All we get are wild boar, foxes and an occasional deer.

Yup, you don't want to mess with a Moose in rutt.

They will pretty much charge anything, houses, vehicles, trees, you name it they will charge it. Moose have VERY poor eye sight, they rely on their ears and noses so when hormones are at a maximum and they can't see what's going on, sometimes they charge things they shouldn't.

I'm sorry about your friends Dad though, they're a big animal and can definately do alot of damage.

There's been a many Moose hit in our area, alot of people get killed or seriously hurt...

But they're still amazing and it's not their fault.

not the mooses' (meese?) fault at all. Its use humans who moved into their home land.

You're lucky to get some nice wildife! Here, I get birds.. squirrels.. the rare occasional chipmunks.. lol. Nothing exciting.

This reminds me of my friends husband

He decided he was going to lose some weight and went for a bike ride (bicycle) and he noticed something behind him....hahahahaha I so wish I would have seen this.

Well it was a baby Moose following him. At first he was scared then he realzied the baby wanted to play, if Bob biked out into the middle of the road, the baby followed, etc. He did this for a few mins when all of a sudden he heard something, looked back and Mama was NOT a happy camper, she started chasing Bob, haha.

He got home, put the bike in the garage and hasn't used it since (this was 2 yrs ago). He said he's never biked so fast in all his life, my friend (his wife) said his legs were sore for over a week, haha.

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=229046

There's another thread I posted a while ago with some of the other stuff

Wow, how cool!

How beautiful! A mother and baby, nothing more precious ! You see so much wild life, I'm so jealous . I grew up in the country, but now live in the city for work reasons. This is the wildlife I see every day.....

Of course there are the junkies, homeless, and others that I don't take pictures of

Oh wow that's so awesome! What strange looking creatures those moose are!

That is too cool!!! I can understand the excitement though. This morning we had 2 deer in our yard munching away at our tree leaves. We were scrambling trying to find our camera (never did find it ). Animals like that are just magical to me because they're so illusive.

Originally Posted by Momto3boys

Yup, you don't want to mess with a Moose in rutt.

They will pretty much charge anything, houses, vehicles, trees, you name it they will charge it. Moose have VERY poor eye sight, they rely on their ears and noses so when hormones are at a maximum and they can't see what's going on, sometimes they charge things they shouldn't.

I'm sorry about your friends Dad though, they're a big animal and can definately do alot of damage.

There's been a many Moose hit in our area, alot of people get killed or seriously hurt...

But they're still amazing and it's not their fault.

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How wonderful that you get to see such creatures in your yard!

My own moose encounter is not so peaceful! I was attacked by a bull during rutting season. I posted my story in another thread about animal stories.

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...25&postcount=9

Great pics! I would've gotten excited too, running around to find the camera. BF is like that when we get opossums in the yard, because I guess they don't have them in England, and he wants to send a photo to his parents, because his mom never saw one. Of course, even though they're very slow, we still haven't gotten a pic yet.

Originally Posted by Draco

not the mooses' (meese?) fault at all. Its use humans who moved into their home land.
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I beg to differ with part of your comment. In many places moose are in a population explosion just like rats with antlers......er whitetail deer in other areas. Here, out in the bald prairie, we have moose, lots of moose and they are forest animals, but they moved right in, destroying yards, living in dugouts and small, fragile lakes. They chase people, worry livestock and they DO NOT belong here. 50 years ago, the odd one would wander from way west to Moose Mountain Park, but now they have moved in. They have driven off antelope and both kinds of deer, although I did see a muley yesterday.

Saskatchewan is about the least populated place on the continent: it has around a million people and is 254900 sq miles in area. The areas where moose used to live is very lightly populated. Tell me again where we encroached on their land?

As with most wildlife management problems, the collective they in charge have made a series of bad decisions. They removed predators, made hunting costs prohibitive and now the moose population is exploding at an uncontrolable rate. Guess we have to wait until CWD takes the excess out like we did with rats with antlers. This problem exists all over Western Canada and not just with moose; we have elk here now (no where NEAR traditional elk ranges), deer are moving into the cities and some people are foolish enough to feed them along with the raccoons and other varmints. Bears are moving out of wooded areas into the open plains, coyotes are a real problem, cougars regularly track through here (gov't of Sask says there are no cougars here) and on and on.

I cannot speak for other areas, only my own 'stompin grounds) but problem wildlife is not all due to people moving farther and farther out.

Great pictures!! My SIL lives in Evergreen, CO and they have moose on their property everyday. Their dog, a pug, eats their doo-doo Drives my SIL nuts!!!!! The moose can also be dangerously protective of their young. They always have to be careful when outside...

Originally Posted by sk_pacer

As with most wildlife management problems, the collective they in charge have made a series of bad decisions. They removed predators, made hunting costs prohibitive and now the moose population is exploding at an uncontrolable rate.

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Why did they remove predators? I am assuming because they're getting "too close to human population". Why else would they remove them?

Your point is valid, and I still stand by my thoughts

Originally Posted by Draco

Why did they remove predators? I am assuming because they're getting "too close to human population". Why else would they remove them?

Your point is valid, and I still stand by my thoughts

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What human population? HBC was taking all kinds of furs before there were even towns up north and even here in the 'populated areas (where there were mostly coyotes anyway), when this area was just a vague area labeled either Assiniboia Territory or The Great Western Desert, depending on the map maker. Please remember, the designations lasted well into the Victorian era and other than scattered little settlements, there were very few people.

The city ofRegina goes all the way back to the late 1880s, Winnipeg not much earlier except as Fort Rouge, same with Edmonton - the latter two were HBC trading forts, not much else. It wasn't until the time of the Russian Revolution that people actually came to live here as citizens of the Territories rather than HBC employees or NWMP and the hangers on that followed army and fur trade people. Please remember, this applied on both sides of the border, not just the Canadian side, not that there really was a border back then: life consisted of fur trade, army, a few brave souls that raised cattle for the others and what other people that latched on in hopes of making a living.

That's so cool!